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Spotted August 21, 2011Clockwise from top left - blackcurrant & violet, pear & ginger, sticky date, manuka honey & hazelnut, licorice & milk chocolate, bitter chocolate. personal favourites are the bitter chocolate (only perennial offering out of the six we chose) and sticky date. probably the only macarons in nz that are good enough to compete with the ones at la renaissance of the rocks, sydney (which are the best i've ever personally tried). -
Spotted May 17, 2011the now overly-hyped ma cherie macarons are just that - all hype. the insides of the shell felt too gummy to me and it wasn't particularly crisp on the outside either. certainly had better ones. flavours tried are cherry, green tea and mocha, with the intense ganache flavour of the mocha one making it our definite favourite of the three. the green tea was a little too mild, flavour-wise.-
Noel Barretto, Jellybobo, César said Great Shot!
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Spotted May 01, 2011from the hummus stall in the market. the crispness is appreciated, but there are way too little nuts.-
adaminsydney said Great Find!
Lil Mmm was it pistachio?
adaminsydney When you are in Sydney, make sure you make the trip out to Abla's in Granville. It's a must.
meei @Lil definitely pistachios and almonds. maybe walnuts, maybe not. @adaminsydney googled abla's at your mention of. looks like diabetic suicide - just my kind of thing haha! i can only hope that a trip to syd will materialise in the near future...
adaminsydney Google won't help you with this one - it's virtually an institution for the area, which mainly comprises Turkish and Lebanese families - when someone has a baby or gets married (or just about anything), you have to do Abla's - and it's open really late, which I like :)
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Spotted March 01, 2011of the soft and borderline powdery sort of crumbly, as opposed to the more prevalent crisp versions. the addition of corn flakes in the batter pleasantly counteracts the mushiness of the cookie. -
Spotted January 16, 2011damaged in transit. L-r: blackberry, dark chocolate, jasmine green tea and salted caramel. kudos to la renaissance for creating ganaches that actually taste like more than just sugar. the're good at it, and they know it too - so much so that they load a truckload of ganache into every macaron. notes: dark chocolate not milky, but still relatively sweet. jasmine green tea carries a distinct jasmine taste, but i'm much to disgusted by the amount of white chocolate in this thing to pass straiht judgement. salted caramel is, well, salted caramel. quite nice. -
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Spotted December 20, 2010pineapple and pear, licorice and raspberry, wasabi and black sesame-
Georgia What did you think of the wasabi and black sesame?
meei quite sugary - more black sesame than wasabi. despite the lightness of the wasabi flavour, you'd definitely still be able to detect it. i thought the light lick from the wasabi complemented the sesame really well, though i would've liked it a little less sweet. but macarons were meant to be sugary anyway haha.
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Spotted December 16, 2010flavour: not too sweet, thankfully. black forest was my personal favourite. mango and white choc was good, but i don't like white chocolate, so *shrug*. the chocolate christmas pudding one tasted somewhat like chai - most sugary of the lot. texture: had lost a little of its crispness already. guess its best to find out when they get their macarons and strike while the iron's hot. -
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Spotted August 29, 2010nice and juicy, yet not overly sweet -
추영, Lil, omggimmenow, César and 5 others said Great Shot!
Lil, cmoore, Merlynda, tamarillo said Great Find!